Felix Frank
Felix was privileged enough to attend Config Management Camp from the very beginning, and has spent many years honing their knowledge of automation technologies and approaches. In 2023 they took the leap and switched from employed work at an ISP to freelance consulting and dev/ops work. Felix hopes to be able to make a living, and enough on top to fund some important activism projects.
Sessions
All your servers run on Green Energy. Your cloud provider plants a tree for any VM you spin up. Your employer bought emission certificates for you and all your colleagues last christmas. And yet, the climate crisis seems to keep escalating year by year. What else can we do? This ignite talk might be disturbing, but will also try to offer some insight into our options.
Ansible has found its indisputable place in the operations and deployment tool chain. This happened despite the fact the rite of passage for any aspiring power user involves cursing the YAML language that powers Ansible. But YAML isn't the only skeleton in Ansible's closet. Ansible also has a rather complicated relationship with JSON and we need to talk about it.